Comment: When Peggy Lee's version of Fever came out, there was a DJ in
Plymouth, Mass., who locked himself in the station and played the song for
something like 30 hours straight. This is not a rumor; I recall it. I was
listening to the station from Provincetown, Mass. What I'm wondering is if
there is any independent confirmation of this event. I find it hard to
believe nobody else recalls it, but I have been unable to find any
information.

For four days before the July 8, 2012 relaunch of KOKE-FM, a radio station in Austin, Texas that popularized progressive country in the early 1970s, a live recording of Dale Watson's "Country My Ass" played in a continuous loop

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WJMP/Kent, OH, in a protest over the 1994 strike that affected Major League Baseball, played 2 versions of "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" continuously, sunrise-to-sunset (the station operates only during daytime hours), for 2 months (and 57,161 total plays) from August to October 1994. The stunt merited WJMP an entry in the Guinness Book of Sports Records.

As a promotional for the annual Duck Race (in which a large number of rubber duckies are dumped into the Willamette River near Eugene, OR), one year a local DJ began playing "Disco Duck" over and over again until enough people called in to buy the tickets the station was selling for the event.

I don't think it went over so well- it took something like 2-3 hours and they never did that particular promotion again.

As a promotional for the annual Duck Race (in which a large number of rubber duckies are dumped into the Willamette River near Eugene, OR), one year a local DJ began playing "Disco Duck" over and over again until enough people called in to buy the tickets the station was selling for the event.

I don't think it went over so well- it took something like 2-3 hours and they never did that particular promotion again.

The least they could have done is play a mix of all those other great popular songs about ducks. Like, um, ... and then there's, ... Okay, after Disco Duck, I guess all we have is this, and two hours of that might have led to violence.

About 20 years ago, there was a Heavy Metal/Hard Rock station in Minneapolis, Minnesota that was changing format to "pop alternative", so they played REM's "It's the End of the World As We Know It" on loop for the last weekend before the change. No commercials, no breaks, no nothing, just voicing their displeasure at the format change.

The least they could have done is play a mix of all those other great popular songs about ducks. Like, um, ... and then there's, ... Okay, after Disco Duck, I guess all we have is this, and two hours of that might have led to violence.

Well there is "Rubber Ducky I love you" by Ernie and isn't "Rubber Duck" his "handle" in "Convoy"

I recall reading a news story in the 1970's about a DJ putting "Autobahn" by Kraftwerk on a loop for an entire day. Might have been on a college station, I can't remember now. The responsible DJ was disciplined, though.

There's also a Peter Schickele album in which a public radio station fundraiser threatens to broadcast only endless repeats of Pachebel's "Canon" until the pledge goal is reached.